Hacker News: boulos

New comment by boulos in "CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs"

boulos — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:50 +0000

Perhaps you missed work like https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html ?

New comment by boulos in "Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft"

boulos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:09:25 +0000

That's not the "edge" in the title. It means competitive advantage in this case.

New comment by boulos in "The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market"

boulos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:34:45 +0000

How do you like the brikka vs the classic?

New comment by boulos in "How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter"

boulos — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:17:16 +0000

How's your experience with Fil-C been? Is it materially useful to you in practice?

New comment by boulos in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

boulos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:14:44 +0000

This used to be true, but GCP forced their hand in January of 2024 with https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...

AWS matched a few months later:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-i...

I'm not trying to convince you to stay (I work for neither anymore!), just wanted to note that you can technically request a waiver. I'm not sure how this works in practice though. Like, if you want to leave Athena and move to something on-premise is that enough to have just that workload? Maybe!

Edit: I also didn't follow this at the time, but the AWS wording suggests that the "EU Data Act" is also involved.

New comment by boulos in "I just want simple S3"

boulos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:12:07 +0000

Yeah, but that missing context is super important.

If they want it for local dev work, that's pretty different from wanting a high-performance air gapped object store without rewriting clients.

They seem to know what they're doing (having complained about a methodology problem in MinIO), and yet don't personally want to throw their hat in the ring not maybe pay anyone...

Context matters!

New comment by boulos in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

boulos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:21:24 +0000

Neat. I wish I could select just a couple lines at once though. I feel like the 1/2/3 plus one of the other lines would make something more appealing.

New comment by boulos in "S3 Files"

boulos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:37:12 +0000

Compared to roll-your-own with S3 or GCS it does :)

New comment by boulos in "Designing AI for Disruptive Science"

boulos — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:08:07 +0000

Will do. I wanted mostly to (re)inform the submitter.

New comment by boulos in "Designing AI for Disruptive Science"

boulos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:02:58 +0000

Please don't editorialize titles unless they're clearly clickbait.

"Designing AI for Disruptive Science" is a bit market-ey, but "AI Risks 'Hypernormal' Science" is just a trimmed section heading "Current AI Training Risks Hypernormal Science".

New comment by boulos in "Waymo Safety Impact"

boulos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:33:23 +0000

Our sixth generation sensor suite is intended for winter driving: https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-drive... for some nice visuals.

New comment by boulos in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

boulos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:01:16 +0000

On recent podcasts, Ilya says he's no longer assuming they can jump straight there.

New comment by boulos in "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"

boulos — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:20:35 +0000

Maybe the author isn't aware that Chainguard is going to keep patching MinIO for CVEs:

https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/secure-and-free-minio-c...

You wouldn't get the other changes in this post (e.g., restoring the admin console) but that's a bit orthogonal.

New comment by boulos in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

boulos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:36:24 +0000

> The entire global software industry is worth less than $1 trillion dollars

Are you saying "worth" as a shorthand for something like annual profit? If you sort the 2025 data by earnings, you get pretty large numbers quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_technology_com...

That's not how you should measure "worth". In that world, you'd have a P/E ratio of 1. Comparing to a bond, it would be like expecting to get paid the face amount in a single year. Many people are quite happy with 5-10% interest as a risky benchmark, so 10-20 P/E isn't wild. That puts the market cap for tech itself at 10-20T as a reasonable baseline.

New comment by boulos in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

boulos — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:19:57 +0000

I feel vindicated :). We put in a lot of effort with great customers to get nested virtualization running well on GCE years ago, and I'm glad to hear AWS is coming around.

You can tell people to just do something else, there's probably a separate natural solution, etc. but sometimes you're willing to sacrifice some peak performance just have that uniformity of operations and control.

Accelerating our global growth: Waymo raises $16B investment round

boulos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:07:25 +0000

Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/waymo-raises-usd16-billion-investment-round

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862459

Points: 5

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New comment by boulos in "Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems"

boulos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:49:00 +0000

This isn't strictly correct: you probably mean wrt compressed size. Compression is a tradeoff between size reduction and compression and decompression speed. So while things like Bellard's tz_zip (https://bellard.org/ts_zip/) or nncp compress really well they are extremely slow compared to say zstd or the much faster compression scheme in the article. It's a totally different class of codec.

New comment by boulos in "Direct Current Data Centers"

boulos — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:09:07 +0000

IIRC, Google contributed +-400 racks last year to Open Compute: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/enabling-1-mw-i...

Clear skies and autonomous Waymo rides at SFO

boulos — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:00:38 +0000

Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/01/waymo-rides-at-sfo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812891

Points: 14

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Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference

boulos — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:21:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-accelerator-built-for-inference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775507

Points: 6

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